Engineering Trade-Offs

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The Engineering Trade-Offs (ETO) Team is tasked to develop a new, integrated decision-making approach to compare/contrast two or more states of being: a benchmark and an alternative, a change in a production process, alternative processes or products. ETO highlights the differences in: 1) engineering performance; 2) economic/cost efficiency; 3) potential environmental burdens. ETO includes an assessment of the potential social resistance to a change. For more information on ETO, please read our ETO Program Brief.

The major projects of the Engineering Trade-Offs Team are:

ETO Methodology Development
Mercury Initiative
Physical Vapor Deposition of Tantalum on Gun Barrel Steel

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Engineering Trade-Offs

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